black-and-white
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
a black-and-white cow
Related & opposite
- colorlessness pertains to
Sense 2 adjective
not having or not capable of producing colors
black-and-white film
Related & opposite
- color antonym
- photography domain topic
Sense 3 adjective
of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
he rejected a black-and-white world
Related & opposite
- divided similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pertains to | Related & opposite | colorlessness |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | color |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | photography |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | divided |